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Short-grass  Souvenir  No.  2 

and 

Spring  and  Summer  Term 
Announcements. 

Vol.  I.  No.  1. 

Issued  Quarterly  by  the  Western  State  Normal  School. 

HAYS,  KANSAS. 

March,  1909. 

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FORE  WORD. 


In  asking  your  attention  to  matter  and  illustrations  on  the  following 
pages,  we  desire  especially  to  congratulate  the  young  people  of  western 
Kansas  upon  the  fact  that  in  an  unprecedented  manner  they  are  availing 
themselves  of  the  opportunity  presented  to  them  for  higher  education  by 
the  state  of  Kansas  in  this  institution.  That  comparatively  they  are  in- 
creasingly making  use  of  the  means  afforded  them  is  strikingly  shown  by 
an  analysis  of  figures  in  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  biennial  reports  of  the 
Board  of  Regents  for  the  State  Normal  Schools  of  Kansas,  as  follows  : 


Enrolment  increase,  three  schools,  in  last  three  years  ....  865 

Hays’  increase 225-26% 

Enrolment  increase,  three  schools,  in  last  two  years 414 

Hays’  increase 156-38% 

Enrolment  increase,  three  schools,  in  last  year 84 

Hays’  increase 71  — 84% 


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FIRST  BUILDING;  ENTIRE  FACULTY  AND  .'STUDENT  BODY  ON  FOOT-BRIDGE,  FIRST  YEAR. 


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Program  Offered  for  First  Fall  Term,  1902. 


Begin 

A.  M. 

Room  2. 

Room  1. 

Room  3. 

8:10 

Arithmetic, 

A. 

Physiology, 

D. 

United  States  History 
(special ). 

8:55 

Geometry, 

D. 

English, 

B. 

Constitution 
( special ). 

9:35 

RECESS. 

9:45 

GENERAL  EXERCISES. 

Orthoepy. 

Spelling, 

B. 

Spelling 
( special ) . 

10:20 

General  History, 

B. 

Physiology 

(special). 

Arithmetic 

(special). 

11:05 

School  Law  and  Management, 
C. 

Geography, 

A. 

Geography 
( special). 

11:50 

United  States  History 
and  Constitution, 

C. 

Bookkeeping 
( special). 

Increase  in  facilities  is  shown  by  a comparison  of  above  program  with 
that  given  on  the  following  page,  six  years  later. 


Program  Offered  for  Fall  Term,  1908. 


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Floor  plan  of  original  building,  same  structure  as  shown  on  page  4. 

A comparison  of  floor  plans  presented  above  with  those  shown  upon  the 
two  following  pages  will  indicate  our  increase  of  room  within  five  years. 


Second  floor. 


First  floor. 


Basement. 

FLOOR  PLANS  OF  MAIN  BUILDING. 


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Second  floor. 


First  floor. 

FLOOR  PLANS  OF  GYMNASIUM. 


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Western  State  Normal  School. 


The  School’s  First  Course  of  Study. 


(This  course  was  the  only  one  offered  for  first  two  years.) 


FIRST  YEAR. 

A. 

1.  Arithmetic. 

2.  Drawing. 

3.  Elocution. 

4.  Geography,  Physical  and  Political. 
Declamation. 

B. 

5.  Algebra. 

6.  Botany. 

7.  English. 

8.  General  History. 

Methods,  Common  Subjects. 
Spelling. 

Declamation. 


SECOND  YEAR. 

C. 

9.  Bookkeeping  and  Penmanship.  * 

10.  Rhetoric. 

11.  School  Law  and  Management. 

12.  American  History  and  Constitu- 

tion. 

13.  Vocal  Music.* 

Pronunciation. 

D. 

14.  Geometry. 

15.  Literature. 

16.  Methods.* 

17.  Physics.* 

18.  Physiology.* 

19.  Psychology.* 

Etymology. 

Essay. 


* Half-term  subjects. 

A comparison  of  this  page  with  the  page  following  makes  clear  the  ex- 
pansion within  five  years  in  the  curriculum  of  the  School. 


Western  State  Normal  School. 


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Life  Certificate  Course  of  Study. 


NORMAL  DEPARTMENT. 
FIRST  YEAR. 


Required. 


Arithmetic ...  two  terms. 

Botany two  terms. 

Drawing two  terms. 

Elocution one  term. 

Political  Geography one  term. 

English four  terms. 


Elective. 

(Four  terms  to  be  taken.) 

Agriculture four  terms. 

Manual  Training two  terms. 

Commerce  four  terms. 

Latin four  terms. 

German four  terms. 


Orthography  gnd  Declamation  supplementary. 


SECOND  YEAR. 


Required. 


Algebra two  terms. 

Geometry two  terms. 

Physics. one  term. 

Music one  term. 

American  History one  term. 

Psychology one  term. 

General  History one  term. 

General  Methods one  term. 

School  Administration  . . . one  term. 

Teaching one  term. 


Elective. 

( Four  terms  to  be  taken. ) 


Agriculture four  terms. 

Latin four  terms. 

German four  terms. 

Zoology two  terms. 

Geology two  terms. 

Elocution two  terms. 

General  History two  terms. 

History  and  Civics two  terms. 

Chemistry  two  terms. 

Physiology one  term. 

Physics one  term. 

Music one  term. 


Orthoepy  and  Essay  supplementary. 

THIRD  AND  FOURTH  YEARS. 


Required. 


Psychology,  including  ) 
Child  Psychology,  ) 

three  terms. 

Teaching 

.three  terms. 

History 

three  terms. 

Biological  Science 

. three  terms. 

History  of  Education. . 

.two 

terms. 

Expression 

two 

terms. 

Literature 

.two 

terms. 

Mathematics 

one 

term. 

Drawing  

one 

term. 

Physiography 

.one 

term. 

Principles  of  Education, 

one 

term. 

School  Administration . 

.one 

term. 

Physical  Science 

one 

term. 

Physical  Training 

.one 

term. 

Elective. 

( Seven  terms  from  elective  list  of 
first  two  years.) 

Students  completing  two  years  of 
above  course  receive  a One-year 
State  Certificate;  those  completing 
three  years,  a Three-year  State 
Certificate;  those  finishing  the  en- 
tire course  are  awarded  a Diploma, 
which  is  a Life  Certificate. 


Oration,  Etymology  and  Vocabulary  supplementary. 


Note.— A term  includes  nine  or  ten  weeks. 


if 


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its  available  within  300  yards  of  present  buildings.  Three  handsome  steel  rowboats  are  now  the  property  of  the  School. 
Parties  can  row  nearly  two  miles  up  the  stream  from  this  point. 


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SKATING  SCENE. 


CLASSROOM  SCENE. 


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Western  State  Normal  School. 


Faculty  Roll  at  Opening  of  School,  1902. 


President. 

Jasper  N.  Wilkinson  (Illinois  Normal  University). 


Resident  Faculty. 

Principal. 

William  S.  Picken  (Kansas  State  Normal  School). 
Assistant. 

Anna  Keller  (Kansas  State  Normal  School). 


THE  GYMNASIUM. 


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The  Faculty,  1908-’09. 

Names  are  printed  in  the  order  of  election. 


PRESIDENT. 

JOSEPH  H.  HILL,  A.  M.,  D.  D.  (Kansas  State  Normal  School  and 
Northwestern  University). 

Resident  Faculty. 

PRINCIPAL. 

WILLIAM  S.  PICKEN  (Kansas  State  Normal  School). 
ASSISTANTS. 

ANNA  KELLER  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

Directress  Model  School. 

ERNEST  B.  MATTHEW  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

Mathematics  and  Pubic  Speaking. 

HARRY  L.  KENT  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

Natural  Science. 

LULU  BICE  (Western  State  Normal  School), 

Librarian. 

CHARLES  A.  SHIVELY,  A.  M.  (State  Normal  School  and 
University  of  Kansas), 

Pedagogy. 

JENNIE  E.  NICKLES,  A.  B.  (University  of  Kansas), 

German. 

ANNETTE  FOSTER  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

English  and  Latin. 

JOHN  S.  BIRD,  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

Commercial  Subjects,  Shorthand,  and  Typewriting. 

JULIA  M.  STONE  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

Model  District  School. 

J.  L.  PELHAM,  B.  S.  Agr.  (Kansas  State  Argicultural  College), 

Agriculture. 

J.  H.  BEACH  (Kansas  State  Normal  School), 

History. 


C.  D.  FRANKENBERGER,  Janitor. 


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GRADUATING  CLASS  OF  1903— The  first  class. 


Rear  view  of  present  plant,  with  new  wings  of  main  building  nearly  completed.  Earth 
from  excavations  and  contractor’s  shed  and  debris  not  yet  cleared  away. 


THE  CLASS  OF  1908. 


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GRADUATES. 


Since  the  School  was  organized,  fifty-six  young  men  and  women  have 
received  diplomas,  seventeen  having  completed  postgraduate  courses.  The 
following  schedule  represents  the  present  status  of  these  graduates: 

Men.  Women. 

Teachers,  district  schools 1 6 

Teachers,  city  schools 1 5 

Teachers,  high  schools 2 

Principals,  city  or  village  schools 5 

Principal,  county  high  school 1 

County  Superintendent 1 

Bookkeeper 1 

Students,  other  educational  institutions 4 1 

Students,  postgraduate  courses,  this  school 10  • 8 

Student,  music 1 

Librarian 1 

Housekeepers 5 

Unclassified 1 1 

Deceased 1 


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The  following  article  from  the  Western  School  Journal,  of  July,  1908, 
presents  one  feature  of  the  Western  State  Normal  School  so  well  that  we 
have  ventured  to  copy  it  complete : 

THE  MODEL  RURAL  SCHOOL  AT  THE  WESTERN  NORMAL  SCHOOL. 

Mrs.  L.  J.  Wilson,  Hill  City. 

The  tendency  of  the  present  in  all  lines  of  education  as  well  as  invention 
is  toward  the  practical.  The  man  with  a practical  idea  demands  attention 
at  every  turn. 

The  Kansas  State  Agricultural  College  had  this  in  mind  quite  early  in 
its  history  when  it  laid  the  foundation  for  teaching  the  mechanic  arts,  and 
later  in  sending  out  its  wheat-lecture  trains  and  its  institute  lecturers,  car- 
rying the  principles  of  practical  scientific  farming,  stock-raising,  and  dairy- 
ing to  the  farmer’s  very  door.  This  is  practical  education. 

The  introduction  of  manual  training  and  domestic  science  into  the 
schools  in  every  city  and  village  of  our  land  is  evidence  of  this  very  idea  of 
reaching  the  great  masses  with  the  practical  phases  in  common-school  edu- 
cation. 

The  founding  of  model  graded  schools  in  connection  with  our  normal 
training  schools  as  aids  to  teachers  in  city  grades,  and  later  the  model  rural 
school  for  teachers  of  country  schools,  are  of  inestimable  value  to  both  the 
inexperienced  teacher  and  her  pupils.  Such  a rural  school  was  established 
last  year,  in  connection  with  the  other  departments  at  the  Western  State 
Normal  School  at  Hays,  with  Miss  Julia  Stone  as  principal. 

The  old  barracks  building,  formerly  used  by  the  soldiers  on  the  Fort 
Hays  reservation,  has  been  removed  to  the  Normal  campus  and  fitted  up 
with  convenient  furnishings  for  a country  school  comprising  all  grades 
from  the  chart  class  through  to  the  graduating  class.  This  department  is 
intended  to  give  instruction  to  teachers  of  rural  districts  in  the  manage- 
ment and  teaching  of  schools  in  any  country  district  in  the  state. 

Here  may  be  found  the  conditions  and  perplexities  found  elsewhere,  and 
the  teacher  is  always  ready  to  assist  not  only  her  own  pupils  but  the  pros- 
pective teacher  how  to  meet  all  such  difficulties. 

The  equipment  is  very  simple  and  inexpensive,  yet  useful. 

The  seating  is  suitable  to  the  various  sizes  of  the  children ; good  light, 
and  plenty  of  blackboard  room  within  easy  reach  of  the  children  is  provided. 
There  is  a small  library,  including  dictionary,  also  a cabinet  containing  such 
articles  as  cotton-bolls,  acorns  in  their  cups,  butterflies,  cocoons,  etc. 

Pictures  of  Washington,  Lincoln,  and  Longfellow,  also  home-made  maps 
and  charts,  adorn  the  walls.  A sand-box  at  one  side  of  the  room  is  used  by 
pupils  in  elementary  geography  class.  A table  near  the  teacher’s  desk  is 
well  loaded  with  various  devices  (many  of  them  home-made)  for  teaching 
numbers,  spelling,  sentence- building,  and  other  work.  Some  suggestions 
for  busy-work  were  shown  in  paper-folding,  paper-mat  weaving,  and  home- 
made valentines  and  May  baskets. 

A class  in  elementary  agriculture  finds  a place  on  the  somewhat  crowded 
program,  and  a near-by  plot  of  ground  has  been  prepared  for  the  children’s 
vegetable  garden,  where  lettuce,  peas,  beets  and  potatoes  make  an  appe- 
tizing display  in  the  geometric  plot. 

Students  regularly  enrolled  in  the  Normal  School  are  required  to  visit 
the  rural  school  and  observe  the  work  from  time  to  time  so  as  to  be  the 
better  prepared  to  educate  the  children  who  later  will  come  under  their 
guidance  and  instruction. 

What  better  preparation,  so  far-reaching  in  its  scope,  could  be  planned 
for  the  improvement  of  educational  conditions  among  the  great  masses  of 
the  rural  districts? 


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MODEL  DISTRICT  SCHOOL  INTERIOR. 


Western  State  Normal  School. 


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Drop-curtain  down. 


Drop-curtain  up. 

TWO  VIEWS  OF  STAGE  OF  NEW  AUDITORIUM. 


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Spring  Term,  Commencing  March  29. 


The  spring  term  is  our  crowded  term.  Last  year  nearly  100  students 
not  previously  enrolled  during  the  year  entered.  An  unusually  rich  program 
is  always  provided  for  this  term,  and  teachers  whose  schools  close  about 
this  time  of  the  year  find  it  to  their  advantage  to  enroll  with  us. 

Expenses  of  living  in  Hays  compare  very  favorably  with  those  of  other 
western  cities. 

By  combining  the  spring  and  summer  terms,  one- half  a year’s  work,  or 
one-eighth  of  the  four  years  required  to  complete  the  Life  Certificate 
Course,  can  be  finished.  Almost  before  the  lapse  of  time  has  become  deeply 
impressed  upon  them  many  tea2hers  have  this  course  over  half  completed, 
and  that  without  ceasing  to  teach  considerable  terms  of  school  yearly.  And 
the  half-way  point  is  marked  by  the  receipt  of  a one-year  state  certificate, 
while  an  additional  year  gives  the  three-year  state  certificate.  When  one 
reaches  this  milestone— only  a year  from  the  life  certificate— the  rest  of  the 
course  reasonably  seems  brief.  With  the  helps  the  state  so  generously 
provides  here,  to  despair  of  scientific  preparation  for  the  life  profession  of 
teaching  is  a mark  of  the  weak  teacher. 


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Summer  Term  of  1909. 


We  confidently  expect  this  to  be  the  best  summer 
session  yet  held. 

Begins  June  1. 

The  scholastic  year  begins  with  this  term.  Make 
your  plans  now  to  attend  it. 

Closes  July  30. 

At  this  date,  March  1st,  we  confidently  hope  to 
enroll  a total  for  the  current  year  of  not  less  than  400 
students.  Let  an  unusually  large  number  of  western 
teachers  enroll  for  the  summer  term,  and  make  next 
year's  total  enrolment  mount  well  up  toward 


500  Students. 


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THE 

WESTERN 
STATE  NORMAL 
SCHOOL. 


In  session  every  month  of  the  year  except  August. 

Expanding  facilities,  increasing  faculty  and  multipli- 
cation of  students. 


The  only  state  educational  institution  in  the  western 
two-thirds  of  the  state. 

Fqr  full  particulars  address 

THE  WESTERN  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL , 
HAYS,  KANSAS. 


